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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Reading Comprehension Support
Synthetic Instruction
IMSLEC
Modification
2. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Anna Gillingham
[-'le
Diagnostic Teaching
Syllable
3. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Grapheme
Fluency
Adolf Kusmaul
Pre-English
4. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Cedilla
Diagnostic Teaching
Age equivalent
Old English
5. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Age equivalent
Old English
Mastery level
Texas Education Code 28.06
6. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Diphthong
Joe Torgesen
Great Vowel Shift
Anglo Saxon
7. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
MSLE
Auditory Learners
Analytic
Chall's Stage 0
8. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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9. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cedilla
Auditory Learners
Samuel T. Orton
Morphology
10. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
Syllable
VV
Analytic
11. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Digraph
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Visual Processing
VAKT
12. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Closed Syllable
Derived Score
Cognition
Syllable
13. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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14. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
ESL
Curriculum referenced tests
Receptive language
Expressive language
15. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Diagnostic tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Raw score
16. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Six basic types of syllables
Academic Achievement Tests
Syllable Instruction
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
17. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Criterion referenced tests
Percentile
Multisensory
Cognition
18. Academic Language Therapy Association
Accuracy
Visual Processing
Old English
ALTA
19. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Phoneme
Breve
Anna Gillingham
Three Layers of Language
20. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Diphthong
CTOPP
Analytic
Syntax
21. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Closed Syllable
Phonological Awareness
Phonology
Standard deviation
22. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Syllable
Modification
Chall's Stage 0
Prefix
23. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Auditory Processing
Cedilla
Universal Screening
Analytic
24. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
WIATII
Linguistic Method
V >
Towre
25. Closed syllable
Macron
VC
ADHD
NICHD
26. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
James Hinshelwood
Age equivalent
Universal Screening
Standardized test
27. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Impulsivity
Multisensory
Latin layer of language
Analytic
28. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
VC
Macron
Ability
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
29. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Adolf Kusmaul
Raw score
Anna Gillingham
Social language
30. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Standardized test
Keith Stanovich
MSLE
Phonics
31. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
WIATII
Academic Achievement Tests
Orthography
Matthew Effect
32. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
Components of Reading Instruction
Curriculum referenced tests
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
33. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Percentile
CTOPP
Curriculum referenced tests
Tactile
34. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Macron
Open Syllable
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
MSL
35. Open syllable
Stanine Scores
V >
Chall's Stage 1
Keith Stanovich
36. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Whole Language
Accuracy
Norm-referenced tests
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
37. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Six basic types of syllables
Academic Achievement Tests
Base Word
Consonant
38. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Derivative
Reading Comprehension Support
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Synthetic Instruction
39. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Consonant Digraph
Mathew Effect
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Six basic types of syllables
40. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
CTOPP
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
IMSLEC
Samuel T. Orton
41. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Matthew Effect
Fluency
Mastery level
42. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Vr
Phonology
Anna Gillingham
Components of Reading Instruction
43. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Letter naming Chart
Visual Learners
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
44. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
V-e
Criterion referenced tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
45. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Academic Achievement Tests
Norm-Referenced Test
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Anglo Saxon
46. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Reading Comprehension Support
Expressive language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
47. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Whole Language
WIATII
Composite Score
Percentile
48. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Sound Symbol Association
Diagnostic tests
MSL
Derivative
49. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
ADHD
Base Word
Sound Symbol Association
Chall's Stage 3
50. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Achievement test
Components of Reading Instruction
James Hinshelwood
Dyslexia